villadom

English

Etymology

From villa +‎ -dom.

Noun

villadom (countable and uncountable, plural villadoms)

1. The world of suburban villas.
   • 1902, Herbert George Wells, Anticipations:

     At present that convenience is still needlessly expensive in Great Britain, and a scandalously stupid business conflict between telephone company and post-office delays, complicates, and makes costly and exasperating all trunk communications; but even under these disadvantages the thing is becoming a factor in the life of ordinary villadom.

   • 1919, Hope, Anthony, The Secret of the Tower:

     […] turning to the right again, but more sharply, the wayfarer found himself once more in villadom, but a villadom more ornate, more costly, with gardens to be measured in acres—or nearly.

Anagrams

• vallidom